Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person.
Once I asked my counsellor for advice about my vocation. I asked, 'How can I know if God is calling me and for what he is calling me?' He answered, 'You will know by your happiness. If you are happy with the idea that God calls you to serve him and your neighbour, this will be the proof of your vocation. '
There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.
Fear is the proof of a degenerate mind.
Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
Bring to me, it said, continual proof you've been alive.
Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.
Scientists have no proof that life was not the result of an act of creation.
I'm the type to have a bullet-proof condom and still gotta pull out.
God is a hypothesis, and, as such, stands in need of proof; the onus probandi rests on the theist.
People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument. . . He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.
The Soul is a fact, but it is not physical. . . . Survivors of near-death experiences attest that some part of them apparently detaches from their physical bodies following the death of the body, but while that is proof of the soul for them, it does not prove it to us. The Soul is like divine music that only God can hear; it is the force of endless resurrection; the soul is like a fire that never goes out.
We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.
Whatever failures may have come to parliamentary government in countries which have not those traditions, and where it is not a natural growth, that is no proof that parliamentary government has failed.
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
My plainness of speech makes people hate me, and what is their hatred but a proof that I am speaking the truth.
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual.
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.